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Harry Styles cut a sombre figure as he spent the first anniversary of bandmate Liam Payne’s tragic death with girlfriend Zoe Kravitz in New York on Thursday.
The singer, 31, and Batman actress, 36, were both dressed in black as they strolled along the street hand-in-hand.
Liam tragically died aged 31 after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina in October 2024, and a subsequent toxicology report revealed alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system.
It comes after Harry’s mother Anne Twist led tributes to Liam on the one year anniversary of his death with a poignant message.
Anne reposted the tribute from the All On The Board Instagram account, with the lengthy message reading: ‘May heaven be a paradise for you where you’re safe and nothing can hurt you, may you feel the love from Earth in your new home there’
It was signed from ‘your family, your friends, your One Direction brothers and the Directioners and so much love to your son Bear.’
Meanwhile Liam’s devastated sister Ruth appears to have taken a swipe at his ex girlfriend Kate Cassidy.
Just hours after his girlfriend Kate shared a video of her ‘last dance’ with the late star on the one-year anniversary of his death, as well as a picture of them together in bed, Liam’s sister Ruth took to social media with a pointed post.
She wrote on social media: ‘Everyone only seems interested in the public side of this, some sadly seem more interested in the fame they can gain off this, but on the human side people need to remember when they speak, there is a son without his Dad, parents without their child and I am lost without my brother.’
Ruth, who shared a sweet family photo as well as a picture of Liam dressed as a pirate, said she has been ‘paralysed’ by the grief as she reflected on how ‘cruel’ life can be.
Ruth wrote in full: ‘1year, 12months, 52weeks, 365days… whichever way I say it, it still means the most heartbreaking truth that you’re not here any more.
‘When you used to go away on tour, and l’d cry that you’d be gone for a while, I always knew you’d come back, but now I can’t get you home, I can’t meet up with you somewhere in the world, I can’t facetime or text to see how you’re doing, it’s an eternal homesick feeling because we can’t go back.’
She continued: ‘I underestimated grief, woah did I underestimate it. I am paralysed by it daily. I thought I had felt it before but I know the losses before you were just intense sadness, you are the loss of my life, the one person who l will miss at every single occasion in my life.
‘I’d taken for granted that my little brother would be there through life, what a cruel lesson to learn in our 30s, that a sibling is not guaranteed to be a lifer, that I have to face this without you.’
Ruth said that Liam’s death ‘will never make sense’ to her and revealed that she has a ‘reoccurring nightmare’ reliving his final minutes in the hotel room.
She said: ‘Your death will never make sense, no matter how much I study it, whatever angle I look at it, it never makes sense. You shouldn’t have died.
‘I have a reoccurring nightmare where I am in your hotel room just before it happened and you can’t hear me screaming for you, my brain is locked on your last minutes on this earth, the unaccounted minutes, the minutes I will never have the answers to, the minutes that changed everything’
Reflecting on the last 12 months without the One Direction star, Ruth revealed that Liam’s son Bear, who he shared with ex Cheryl Tweedy, has ‘changed massively’.
She wrote: ‘So much has happened in a year, so much to tell you, our kids have changed massively, you would continue to be in awe of your son!
‘I’ve definitely got funnier (I know you’re thinking how is that possible right?!) – some of the jokes I make really make me smile because I know they would have earned me a ‘ruuu’ off you, l’ve visited some beautiful places but each place has confirmed, no matter the view, I will still feel your void from all corners of the earth.
‘There’s so many things that have happened where l’ve tried to imagine what would be said if you were in the room, how you would expect me to react or handle things for you, maybe a, ‘Liam would love this’, or a lot of ‘Liam would be fuming this is happening’ but then the thoughts are followed by the emptiness of your absence.
‘I’m sorry I have not been able to keep my promises to you in the event of your death, it will forever haunt me how little I have been able to do as you said.
‘We were so naive in our conversations about this serious stuff in how much of the law is in death, outdated laws we never knew existed where nothing is simple, why would we know about them in our early 30’s, the devastation just sinks deeper with every bit of you I fail.’
